JavaScript Goodies

A while back, I wrote a quick JavaScript manipulator for my own usage, but never posted it. I have always struggled to read really terrible text online (no thanks to horrid fonts and colors), so I wrote a javascript page to be used as an online reader wherever I go.

Still Alive

Contrary to popular belief, I am quite alive. I have just been very busy with school and work, and I have been completely unable to polish any of the articles and programs I want to post.

In the meantime, you can check out my work on Forth, including a Forth Wiki and a live Forth CD (based on Debian Live) to give you a taste of Forth. The live cd uses LXDE as a desktop, which I find I am starting to like more and more (given Gnome's bloat and KDE's insatiable appetite for resources - read more here).

A load of old Windows scripts

While digging through some old backups during Backup Day (and ensuring that I had set up my computers to rsync), I found a set of rather useful scripts that I used during my time as an IT volunteer.

They immediately reminded me of my experience with Windows administration: while it's often easy 1, Windows administration can be very frustrating.

Two outstanding issues come to mind: first, that every program insists on having its own updater (often just a nagscreen to "recommend" you go to the site and download a new version; and second, that there is hardy any support for Unix-style shell programming. Most management programs on Windows are either HUGE in scope, or too narrow. So narrow in fact, that it can't be applied to most situations... just as I discovered one fateful week when trying to use delprof.exe...